Albany ranked 12th most Jewish city in the U.S.

The first day of Hanukkah will be celebrated on Wednesday with the candle on the far right of the menorah the first to be lit, shown outside of The Israel Center on New Scotland Avenue in Albany, NY on Tuesday evening November 30, 2010. Rabbi Yaakov Kellman, Executive Director of The Israel Center is at left, while Rabbi Mendy Mathless, who will be director of the Chabad of University Heights when a January opening is planned, is at right. Rabbi Mathless and his organization will be running a booth in the Empire State Plaza concourse during Hanukkah. ( Philip Kamrass / Times Union )

In a Happy Hanukkah article, the Daily Beast measured 110 major metro areas in the U.S. based on three per-capita criteria: Jewish population, synagogues, and kosher restaurants across 110 major metropolitan areas across the U.S.

New York City ranked No. 1, but Albany came in a respectable 12th right behind San Francisco and just ahead of Tucson, Ariz. (and the No. 2 city in New York state).